Outbound Ohio

  This statue of Abraham Lincoln stands at the entrance to the former Cleveland Board of Education building.  Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909, and I reflect on how to remember Lincoln in a post-penny era. I Visited Downtown Cleveland’s Statue of Lincoln and Reflected on Juneteenth By Anna Krejci In 1932, the Cleveland community formally revealed a statue of the late U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the entrance to the Cleveland Board of Education building downtown.  Children attending school in Greater Cleveland raised money for the statue in coins – namely pennies and nickels  – to bring the sculpture into being.  According to Cleveland Historical, Max Kalish was the artist.  Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” is engraved on the statue’s foundation.    It makes a statement that children, who usually have little ability to pay, valued the memory of Lincoln so much that they collected money little by little to have the statue sculpted....